Francis Paddock (September 15, 1814 – March 29, 1889) was a frontier medical doctor, farmer, and politician of Kenosha County, Wisconsin.

[3] He later received an appointment with a Dr. Hamilton of Auburn, allowing him to pursue his medical endeavors.

[2] In 1838, at the age of twenty-five and finished with his medical education, Paddock and his family, three generations of it, traveled west from New York in a covered wagon to what was then the Wisconsin Territory.

The eldest member of the group, David Paddock, Francis's grandfather, was a Revolutionary War veteran and died shortly after the trip.

Paddock was an example of the typical country doctor, having to ride horseback for miles in all kinds of Wisconsin weather.

He solved the problem by putting grease in a dish, placing a rag in it and lighting it.

He was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Kenosha County in the Wisconsin State Senate for the 1855 session.

[1] He ran for the Assembly in 1873, but lost to Reform Party candidate Robert S. Houston.